After being swallowed up by a number of drivers having made an awful getaway, Bottas got his braking point🅘 all wrong into Turn 1 and slid into the rear of McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Norris ran into Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, wi𝐆th Bottas slamming into the side of Sergio Perez, eliminating the Mexican from the race on the spot. Although he was able to recover to the pits, Norris was forced to retire under the su♉bsequent red flag.

Verstappen wasꦇ able to continue but extensive damage to his car meant he could only salvage a point in 10th.

Bottas has received a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix later this month for causing the Turn 1ꦯ carnage, while Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll has been hit with the same punishment for taking outꦇ Charles Leclerc.

Here’s how some of the drivers involveღd re🌸sponded to the chaotic start in Hungary…

Charles Leclerc - ‘Nice bowling game’

“I don’t know what to say, I mean, in most of incidents I can undersꦆtand wheneve🔯r there are different views about incidents.

“Bottas lost the car. In the beginning, I thought it was Laꦐndo but yeah it’s clear that Bottas just made a big mistake and took everyone out of the race.

“It’s a big shame.ꩵ It’s a massive blow for us as a team but we 🦹also lost the engine very likely, so not ideal really.”

Max Verstappen - ‘Again taken out by a Mercedes’

“Again take🦄n out by a Mercedes… that’s not what you want and f🅺rom there onwards I was missing my whole side of the car – the whole bargeboard area. And the floor was damaged as well.

“It wa🍷s almost impossible to drive to be honest. I still tried my very best and I still scored one point so…it’s at least something but of course, it’s not what we want.”

Lando Norris - ‘A stupid crash’

“Yeah, not much to say. Just annoyed I guess. Lap 1, I don’t know why that has to ඣhappen, why risk doing those kind of stupid things. But nothing I can 𒆙do though. Not a lot to stay.

Asked if he felt Bottas deserv♐ed a penalty, Norris replied: “Ofꦏ course, if I get a penalty for not even doing anything wrong in other tracks, then he should deserve a much bigger penalty than what I got. So we’ll see.

“I hope they have some common sense and they do what they should do, but it’s not up to me at the end of th🎃e day.”

Valtteri Bottas - ‘A mess’

“I had a poor start, wheelspin off the 🌳line, and lost places. And then braking into first corner I was right in the gearbox of Lando and I just locked the wheels.

“So probably being that close didn’𒊎t calculate quite right the braking poi🦄nt, locked two wheels, hit him, and then it was a mess.”